When looking at batters in Points Leagues, you must immediately recognize a major difference from the Rotisserie format
- steals are only minimally important. With no ratio categories, total bases and counting stats become your ambrosia.

The ideal pitching points strategy is to nab high Dom starting pitchers with a winning team. You need the strikeouts as the reliable points with the wins to push up his point totals. Since wins remain difficult to project, and pitchers tend to injure more often than hitters, the most effective strategy may involve saving most starting pitchers for the end of the draft.

Each year at BaseballHQ.com we bring you a thorough analysis of the latest Strat-O-Matic card ratings. With the recent release of the 2011 season, we help you concentrate on your simulation assets to help you win consistently.

At First Pitch Arizona 2011, Ron Shandler introduced a new challenge salary-cap game. Each owner was provided with a list of player valuations and tasked with selecting a 40-man roster without spending more than $350. The valuations were based on player performance within the Roto500 scoring system over the last two years. Here, we look at the players that would provide the biggest expected bang for the buck if drafted on day one.

One of the features of simulation leagues is that many formats make use of batter/pitcher platoon splits in some fashion. In Scoresheet, a platoon split factor is computed for every offensive player, based on how the player has performed against both RHP and LHP over the past two seasons. The list is here, and these factors are applied for every at-bat in the upcoming Scoresheet season, depending on the handedness of the opposing pitcher.